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Economics & Development
Latest addition : 7 January.
This category's books
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Economics of Banana Production and Marketing in the Tropics: A Case Study of Cameroon
2012, author(s)-editor(s) ,In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production. However, a few countries, especially in Francophone West Africa, have recognised the commercial importance of banana, and have used their special relationship with France to export bananas. This has led to the dualization of the banana sector, with the traditional system existing side by side with a modern sector geared towards export trade. This book is one of the few comprehensive studies that have (...) -
Re-thinking Development in Africa: An Oral History Approach from Botoku, Rural Ghana
2011, author(s)-editor(s)In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africa’s own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development. (...) -
Moral Degeneration in Contemporary Zimbabwean Business Practices
2011, author(s)-editor(s)This is an engaged and extremely well-informed book on business and business ethics in a society with political and social-economic crises. As an engaging and engaged effort to bring a nexus between business ethics and business practices in any human society, the book invites the reader to partake in pressing debates on business ethics in times of crisis. The book provides a much needed interdisciplinary approach and marshals an extraordinary array of social and intellectual resources that (...) -
Decentralisation and Spatial Rural Development Planning in Cameroon
2011, author(s)-editor(s)Despite rapid urbanisation, Africa remains predominantly rural. This calls for decentralisation beyond the dominant concern by states and government with urban spaces. Rural areas, rural development and the future of rural settlements need to be understood and addressed in the context of the ongoing democratisation trends and the emergence and development of civil society. States have tended to tame rather than serve civil society in Africa. By establishing a single cultural reference and (...) -
Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon’s Plantation Economy
2010, author(s)-editor(s)This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study (...) -
Road Companion to Democracy and Meritocracy: Further Essays from an African Perspective
2010, author(s)-editor(s)Each of the essays in this book is marked by a certain simplicity and clarity, a seriousness tinged with humour, masking a profundity that are unmistakably characteristic of Godfrey B. Tangwa alias Rodcod Gobata, one of the leading critical minds amongst Cameroonians. The essays are centered on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable (...) -
We Get Nothing from Fishing. Fishing for Boat Opportunities Amongst Senegalese Fisher Migrants
2010, author(s)-editor(s)The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemingly desperate, these Africans, most of them males, are willing to risk a perilous journey at sea, hoping for a better life in Europe. And, even worse, hundreds more are believed to die each year, swallowed up anonymously by the choppy waters off Africaís coast. This book focuses on fishermen who have played a pivotal role in boat migration from Senegal to Spainís (...) -
Neoliberal Bandwagonism
2009, author(s)-editor(s)Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon Civil society and empowerment have become buzz words in neoliberal development discourse. Yet many unanswered questions remain on the actual nature and configuration assumed by civil society in specific contexts. Typically, while neoliberals perceive civil-society organisations as vital intermediary channels for the successful implementation of desired economic and political reforms, they are inclined to blame the current (...) -
Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development
2009, author(s)-editor(s) ,This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context, identifying the internal factors that impinge on good governance and development, and proposing solutions. It provides empirical evidence on the extent to which inappropriate governing strategies are the main internal obstacle to development in Cameroon. The authors discuss factors (...) -
Youth and Nation-Building in Cameroon
2009, author(s)-editor(s)A Study of National Youth Day Messages and Leadership Discourse (1949-2009) This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how (...)
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